Today#s challenging health care conditions require the development of increasingly sophisticated health programs in order to compete for funding and support. The influencing forces of federal legislation, rigid public health goals, an emphasis on outcomes of health care and evidence-based practice, and use of total quality management and improvement tools have brought about new standards for program development. Health Program Planning and Evaluation: A Practical, Systematic Approach for Community Health will help you to systematically develop, thoughtfully implement, and rigorously evaluate health programs across a variety of health disciplines. In doing so, it also serves to help students and professionals become savvy consumers of evaluation reports and prudent users of evaluation consultants. It presents the practical tools and concepts in language suitable for both the practicing and novice health program planner and evaluator. Distinguishing itself from other program planning and evaluation texts through its use of the public health pyramid, consistent use of a program logic model throughout the text, and role modeling evidence- based practice, this text will provide you with a firm foundation in addressing the needs of the population through health program planning and evaluation.